# New Zealand’s lowest total vs India at Auckland is 101 off 61.4 overs in March 1968.

# Test cricket’s lowest ever total is registered at Auckland — 26 off 27 overs by New Zealand vs England in March 1955.

# India, while batting second, have conceded a first innings lead of 301, their second highest to New Zealand. They conceded a first innings lead of 314 in the 2008-09 drawn Napier Test. The scores were New Zealand (619 for 9 wickets declared) & India (305 & 476 for 4).

# India have dismissed their opponent’s first five batsmen for 25 runs or less five times in an innings — once each against Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Australia, West Indies and New Zealand.

# Seventeen wickets were taken on the third day — the second most in an Auckland Test. Eighteen wickets fell on the first day in a Test match involving Australia and New Zealand in March 1974.

# In New Zealand’s first and second innings, a difference of 398 runs was witnessed, their highest against India.

# Ishant Sharma‘s (nine wickets) for excellent figures are the best by an Indian medium-pacer in a Test match vs New Zealand, bettering Javagal Srinath’s 8 for 108 in the 1999-2000 Mohali Test.

# Ishant’s nine for 162 are his second best in a Test match, next only to the 10 for 108 vs West Indies at Bridgetown in 2011.

# Ishant’s performance is the second best by an Indian bowler in a Test match in New Zealand. Erapalli Prasanna had taken 11 for 140 in the 1975-76 Auckland Test.

# India (202) have posted their lowest completed innings total at Eden Park, Auckland, surpassing the 238 in March 1981.